September 14, 2012

“It’s definitely going to get attention,” said [Adam] Mansbach, who is writing the script for Jackson’s ad and said it would appear on YouTube on Sept. 24.

So, there's this step, where they say there's a line, but if Mansback "is writing the script," it's a line in the process of getting written. And you get attention saying that's what the potential line is and even outright asserting that it's going to get attention. It will get attention in the future, and you are getting attention now, saying it's going to get attention.

And you've tweaked the NY Post into printing the line and calling it "provocative," and everyone can react, and if the reaction is bad enough the line — the emerging, evolving, line-in-progress — can become something else. And then you can get attention with that ad, that ad that the dumb right-wingers vetted for you, and you can get attention calling the right-wingers dumb for thinking that would be the line.

And you know why they thought that and/or why they got upset? They're racist. You can get attention saying that.

Wake the fuck up, eh? What a racist dog-whistle ad this is going to be.

Any conservatives sleeping through this election? Anyone on the fence, apathetic, not motivated to vote?

Un-named Obama voters are apparently dozing safely in the caring arms of Uncle Sam and need to "wake up"...because the Gravy Train is in trouble, and if you want those EBT cards, disability payments, free cell phones and government "assistance" to continue, you better drive the Escalade down to the voting booth.

Or is there going to be a Famous Angry White Guy doing a similar "Wake the Fuck Up" ad aimed at me?

The Obama campaign is buying into the idea that profanity is "real" and edgy. I got an email from the Obama campaign with the subject line "well I'll be damned." about them out raising Romney in August. I replied, "yes, most likely you will be."

Dave D wrote:Just heard that bHo is up 10 points here in Michigan. Michigan has went to the winner in all of the recent elections.

"[Has] went..."? We adhere to a higher standard on the Althouse blog. As a general rule I find that slowing down long enough to get the grammar at least partly right gives one an opportunity to also correct the more important errors of fact and/or logic one is liable to commit in haste.

I hail from a tiny Republican farming town of 6,000 in central Illinois. Great people. They don't hate anybody, and they aren't interested in hurting anybody.

Nobody is, haven't you heard?

A couple of days ago, I worked for 10 hours side-by-side with a woman who had the most open, happy, face. I was all "Alright!"

But, before long, she had a scowl on it, and - without prompting - was informing me of the coming armageddon, man's "destruction," and how good it was because Jesus would finally be returning (she deduced I didn't understand this because I told her I don't watch much TV,...) and it was all in the Bible and The Lord's Prayer which said:

I hope they keep the word "fuck" in the advertisment. That will turn off a lot of people.

I have often thought that the first Republican (a Democrat could not get away with this) to drop the F-bomb intentionally during a nationally televised debate would win by a landslide. However after that happens, the door will be open and it will become almost obligatory.

The darkness drops again but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

If you want to know why no one pays any attention to you, reread your comment. Your pronouncement that I "lied" is worthless. That you think it's sufficient to cause anyone to "squirm" is bizarre. That you think this constitutes higher thinking rather than blundering idiocy means "move on".

Garage: I don't see anyone blaming Obama for the death of the ambassador and the others as any different than the left blaming GWB because he didn't lock down the U.S. after being warned that an attack was planned by AQ. And going to Vegas could be equated with the GWB reading of My Pet Goat could it not? And the fact that the Marines have guns with no bullets in Cairo should be worth a mention shouldn't it? Or is that too touchy a topic in these touchy times? Or could we be so bold as to ask how an "unplanned" and "uncoordinated" attack on the outpost could have involved rocket launchers and grenades both of which weapons require a bit of planning and coordinating to get to the scene and so on. Or is all this too racist and political?

And the fact that the Marines have guns with no bullets in Cairo should be worth a mention shouldn't it?

That particular bit of inflammatory nonsense has already been debunked. You didn't wonder why that rumor isn't cited outside the right wing fever swamps? No matter, more insane wingnuttery can't be far behind.

Wake the Eff up? Dude if you want your movie sales to stay the same you'd probably better clam the eff up. People are upset by this election and I don't think they are in any mood to be barked at by some rich Hollywood fake.

Garage asserted that Romney and his supporters cheer Americans losing their jobs solely because it benefits their electoral chances. Yes, this is stupid, but it is his stated position. The same reasoning means he is cheering American deaths. Those deaths help Obama and his philosophy is that anything that helps a party is cheered by those who want that party to win.

You have not once addressed the logic of this statement, but instead have merely shouted "lie", even though it doesn't include any element of lying. Even garage is running away because he doesn't want to have to admit his Romney assertion is bullshit.

Your inability to think even to the second level, or your obstinacy in refusing to do so, is not important to me.